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[BCS275]

Criticize all they want, your frog lived 14 years! Simpler times maybe?

Simpler times indeed, but pehaps a hardier frog than we find now?

I say that Larry was an Ornate, but all I have is an old Polaroid (who took pictures of their frogs back then? I was the only person I knew that had a horned frog) Larry didnt look quite like any of the frogs I see today. Was he a hybrid? Dont know. Did hybrids exist circa 1983?

I have an old zoology book that has a picture of what they called a Ceratophrys Varia....that frog looks very much like I recall Larry to look like.

Larry was probably 7 inches long or perhaps a bit more. Just as wide. Big as my hand anyway, and I have big hands. Large triangular horns. A bit of yellow in the armpit area. Yellow eyes. Large "teeth". More of a sloping snout than I see in our frogs today. An endless appetite and he was very mean. Bit me twice and one of the times was quite painful.

I guess I'll never be quite sure exactly what that frog was, but it was obviously one tough critter.

For the knowledge of the time I was fastidious in the frogs care. Always kept warm, water changed every day, or more. Lots and lots of live food.

I guess it worked, but it isnt pretty compared to todays standards.

[GrifTheGreat]

Simpler times indeed, but pehaps a hardier frog than we find now?

I say that Larry was an Ornate, but all I have is an old Polaroid (who took pictures of their frogs back then? I was the only person I knew that had a horned frog) Larry didnt look quite like any of the frogs I see today. Was he a hybrid? Dont know. Did hybrids exist circa 1983?

I have an old zoology book that has a picture of what they called a Ceratophrys Varia....that frog looks very much like I recall Larry to look like.

Larry was probably 7 inches long or perhaps a bit more. Just as wide. Big as my hand anyway, and I have big hands. Large triangular horns. A bit of yellow in the armpit area. Yellow eyes. Large "teeth". More of a sloping snout than I see in our frogs today. An endless appetite and he was very mean. Bit me twice and one of the times was quite painful.

I guess I'll never be quite sure exactly what that frog was, but it was obviously one tough critter.

For the knowledge of the time I was fastidious in the frogs care. Always kept warm, water changed every day, or more. Lots and lots of live food.

I guess it worked, but it isnt pretty compared to todays standards.

I've never heard of that species of Ceratophrys. Maybe an Aurita??! Just the classification has changed now. C. Aurita is what is called the giant Horned Frog so perhaps that was what Larry was